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title: So Becfola wanted the monks to get all the gold, yeah? — Deirdre, Becfola's Wooing, part 21: Be… · tree and pragmatics
description: So Becfola wanted the monks to get all the gold, yeah? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1053 «Deirdre, Becfola's Wooing, part 21: Becfola sneaks home and the king turns her scolding into a joke» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt
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# Test 7 · ★ · Deirdre, Becfola's Wooing, part 21: Becfola sneaks home an…

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So Becfola wanted the monks to get all the gold, yeah?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Becfola, monks · **What happens:** want, get · **To what, where:** monks, gold

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1053 «Deirdre, Becfola's Wooing, part 21: Becfola sneaks home and the king turns her scolding into a joke» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1053-pg2892-part21/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1053-pg2892-part21:t7:1
# text = So Becfola wanted the monks to get all the gold, yeah?
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Becfola	Becfola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	monks	monk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | Becfola | the monks |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the monks *not said here* | all gold |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gold=Stimulus |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Yeah, cos she reckoned Sunday gold brings bad luck

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1053-pg2892-part21:t7:o1:1
# text = Yeah, cos she reckoned Sunday gold brings bad luck
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	cos	cos	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	reckoned	reckon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	nsubj:outer	_	_
6	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | past | she | Sunday gold |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent gold=Attribute |
| 2 | **bring** | present |  | bad luck |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent luck=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, she wanted the monks rich

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1053-pg2892-part21:t7:o2:1
# text = Yeah, she wanted the monks rich
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	monks	monk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | she | the monks |  |  |  | rich *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot monk=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yeah, cos she reckoned Sunday gold brings bad luck, so the monks should take every last coin of it

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1053-pg2892-part21:t7:o3:1
# text = Yeah, cos she reckoned Sunday gold brings bad luck, so the monks should take every last coin of it
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	cos	cos	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	reckoned	reckon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	monks	monk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
17	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
18	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | past | she |  |  |  | sunday |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bring** | present | gold | bad luck |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent luck=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | should | the monks | every last coin of gold |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Theme |
| 4 | **coin** |  |  | gold |  |  |  |  | nom coin «possession transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, she wanted the king to keep half of it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1053-pg2892-part21:t7:o4:1
# text = Nah, she wanted the king to keep half of it
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
9	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	8	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | she | the king |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* | half of half |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Theme |

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